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Why choose BoardPro over BoardEffect?
According to hundreds of G2 reviews, users prefer BoardPro over BoardEffect for five key reasons:
- BoardPro meets the overall requirements of small businesses and non-profits more often than BoardEffect
- BoardPro is easier to use, set up, and administer than BoardEffect
- BoardPro has a shorter time to go live than BoardEffect
- BoardPro has a faster time to ROI than BoardEffect
- BoardPro has a higher quality of customer support than BoardEffect
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Easier to set up, administer and use than BoardEffect
BoardEffect offers powerful tools to address disparate systems and manual processes, but its features may be challenging for those with limited tech experience or the time to learn new software.
BoardPro is designed with simplicity at its core. The intuitive interface makes it easy for anyone to use without needing extensive governance training or technical expertise. This makes it a good choice for organisations with volunteer board members.
There is also a comprehensive Help Centre and an extensive Resource Centre with templates and free webinars to get everyone up to speed.
Quicker time to ROI than BoardEffect
BoardPro provides a financial return on investment sooner due to its ease of implementation, immediate efficiency gains, and cost-effective pricing. This means more value, sooner for BoardPro users. A third of organisations using BoardPro see a financial return in under 6 months, with a further 21% seeing a return in 7-12 months.
Shorter time to go live than BoardEffect
For organisations that are eager to get up and running with board management software, BoardPro is a good choice. In fact, 32% of organisations are actively using BoardPro within a day and 55% within a month, organising their next meeting with effortless board agendas, the ability to build board packs in a click, and minute-taking in real time.
BoardPro’s helpful customer support is preferable
With BoardPro, you’re never alone—there’s a real person ready to assist. Customer support is available 24/7 and is just a click away via the website’s ‘chat’ feature. The average 5-minute response time also means you’re not kept waiting. Plus there’s a comprehensive Help Centre for product support and an extensive Resource Centre with free templates and webinars that provide a knowledge base of additional industry expertise.
Customer success that’s not a chat bot:
- 5-star customer success available around the clock
- Real people helping your people
- Average 5 minute response time
- Resource centre provides free templates and live webinars on governance good practice
BoardPro protects your confidential data
With BoardPro, security comes first, so you are assured your governance data is safe and secure. Servers are hosted on Microsoft Azure enterprise-grade data centres in Australia, with end-to-end data encryption using industry-standard transport layer security. Further security measures in place include:
- Data security with robust physical measures of 24/7/365 monitoring and surveillance, on-site security staff and regular ongoing security audits
- Data replication with multiple geographically separate data replicas and hosting environments, with real-time data replication between protected facilities, transmitted across encrypted links
- Multi-factor authentication that meets the latest standards
- User access levels that you control, meaning you can assign or revoke permissions as needed, with different levels for administrators, board members, and management
Communication is at the heart of a good board process.
We love how everything happens in one place and not across countless emails or shared folders
Patrick Coyle
GM Australasia, Karma Cola
